Abolitionists Challenged Stereotypes About African-Americans By

question 110

Multiple Choice

Abolitionists challenged stereotypes about African-Americans by:

• A) countering the pseudoscientific claim that they formed a separate species.
• B) presenting the compositions of Henry Highland Garnet to disprove the belief that African culture was inferior because it produced no classical music composers.
• C) pointing to Haiti,the scene of the famous slave revolts of the 1790s and 1800s,as a model of civilization.
• D) making January 1,the anniversary of the end of the international slave trade,a holiday throughout the North until the end of the Civil War.
• E) nominating Frederick Douglass for president in 1852 and winning him Vermont's electoral votes.

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